#21 (Spring 1992): “I is for Incite!”; record reviews in reverse-alphabetical order

# 22 (Summer 1992): “Parlor Rock Manifesto” by Frank Boscoe; “Out of the Way First Names: A History of People”; “Suburban Bordeoom (Timeless), June 1992”; “This is Oi!”; “Most Hit Py Pitch, Country”; record reviews and Harriet news

#23 (Spring 1993): “Tamper-proof Screws”; “Omniscience: Or, Why We Are Here”; record reviews divided into several “lumps”: riot grrl, “grown-up,” Matador, “unlumpworthy,” indie pop (US and German), and the “Are We Having Fun Yet?” lump; and Harriet news

#24 (Fall 1993): “Another Incite, Another Exclamation Mark (!)”; “Tee Shirts”; “Where a Record Can Take You” (about finds from Boston record stores and an old friend from 1986); “Harriet Visits Melbourne” (on Horatio Alger’s In a New World and the Melbourne indie pop scene); record reviews and Harriet news

#25 (Spring 1994): “U2 vs. Hub-and-Spoke (Jetstream of Consciousness)”; “A Short History of Wimp Factor XIV”; “Harriet(te)s Through Time”; “I’ve Got to Move with the Fashion, or Be Outcast” (connecting Quadrophenia with the Grifters and Guided by Voices); an appreciation of LMNOP; “Sonntagsmorgen Klingelns (on German indie pop); The Incite! Thesaurus; record reviews and Harriet news

#26 (Autumn 1994): Special Epistolary Issue, with thoughts on letter-writing, personal correspondence, and “How to Write Letters”; “Claremont Spleen: Dick Van Dyke Meets John Darnielle”; record reviews and Harriet news

#27 (Summer 1995): record reviews, including a “special Pavement comparison section”) and Harriet news; numerous illustrations of dugongs.

#28 (February 1996): “Insightful Fanzines”; “Harriet Tidings”; “Library Rock” (interview with several indie-pop musicians who worked in libraries); record reviews; numerous illustrations from library trade journals

#29 (May 1997): essay comparing indie pop to high-scoring scrabble letters; appreciations of the New Bad Things, Bis, The Delgados, Meller Welle, dugong rock, Small Factory, riot grrl and Matilda; record reviews and Harriet news

#30 (July 1998): “Happy Endings” (on leaving Boston); “Harriet and Friends, 1989-1998” (memories and correspondence relating to Harriet); record reviews and Harriet news

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#11 (September 1988) “Don’t the Kids Just Love It?”; interviews with Ed’s Redeeming Qualities and Galaxie 500; “Doing It On Their Own: My Afternoon in Camden High Street”; reviews of records I got while in the UK; “My Trip to Bristol” (interview with Matta and Clare from Sarah and Martin from Subway Organization)

#12 (November 1988) “I’m Listening to Music Again”; profile of Angela Fiducia Tilton Heywood, founder of the New England Free Love League in 1873; interviews with High Risk Group and Girl Trouble; “What Little Girls Are Made of” (reflections on Harriet the SPy, The Borrowers, and indie rock); record reviews

#13 (March 1989) bits of mail; “Writing Songs” by Linda Smith; “A Pop Postcard” by Jeffrey Borchardt (on Postcard Records); interview with Lillian Daniel of Geek (pre-Tsunami) by Corey Powell; “Bad, Superman, Bad,” short story by Ray Halliday; “What I Feel about Stevie Smith”; reviews of records and fanzines

#14 (July 1989) reflections on Some Velvet Sidewalk and growing up in Astoria, OR; poems by Nancy Krygowski; “Original Slinky, Walking Spring Toy”; “The Fanzine Game”; “Poetry Reading—the New England Poetry Club”; record and tape reviews

#15 (September 1989) “Teenage Kicks Right Through the Night” (the Fastbacks vs. Greil Marcus); appreciation of Dead Moon, Mega City Four, and the Pastels; “Ancient Grandma Secrets” (oral history with my grandmother, Cynthia Estella Jones); article on the Freshies; “The Withering of the Word” (fake academic article loosley concerning sea monketys)

#16 (November 1989) “The Bad News/The Good News”; print reviews (The Somerville Journal, pulp fiction and fanzines); poems by Richard Hay; “Girls At Their Best” (articles on the Mo-dettes and Girls At Our Best); appreciation of My Dad Is Dead; record reviews

#17 (April 1990) “The Scene Was then”; scene reports on Boston, Pittsburgh, Washington State; Community 3 Records; poem by Richard Hay; letters, record reviews

#18 (October 1990) “I Was Trying to Describe You to SOmeone”by Richard Brautigan; “A Parable about Merge Records”; interview with the Rosslyns; “The Big Red Machine” (about the Cincinnati Reds in the mid-1970s); Bi-Joopiter Tapes; record reviews, Harriet news

#19 (March 1991) “Nothing Personal… Everything Personal”; record reviews, Harriet news

#20 (August 1991) “Fanzine Thralldom and Thrilldom”; “Why Running a Record Label is Neat”; “Natural Kinds of Joy” (on Kenneth Grahame and That Petrol Emotion); “The International Pop Conspiracy Theory” (on not attending the International Pop festival in Olympia); “Sweetest Aches and Sarah Pains”; “Cubist Pop: Pgh Meets NC”; “Feeling Good All Over in Chicago”; “What Makes a Label a ‘Major’ Label?”; record reviews

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#1 (Fall 1985) Opinions by me and Bill Whelan; “Houston 1966” scene report by Corey Brennan; interview with the Prevaricators, a punk band from Richmond, VA; record and live reviews.

#2 (Spring 1986) Opinions by me and Bill Whelan; interview with Angst; article by Corey Brennan on the Far Right (drawn from his time working in the Hatvard Government Documents library); interviews with Beefeater, The Descendents, and Joseph I from Bad Brains; live and record reviews.

#3 (Spring 1987) “Why I Don’t Go Out Anymore”; live review of the TV Personalities in London; record and fanzine reviews.

#4 (Summer 1987) “Small Packages of Swellness in the Mail”; live review of the Lemonheads; interview with SOns of Ishmael (hardcore band from Toronto); article on NME Magazine; record and live reviews.

#5 (Fall 1987) A Tipper Gore Dry Dream”; top five beers by Sasha Gottschalk; record reviews.

#6 (December 1987) “The Song Is Over”; Rome scene report by Corey Brennan; interview with Screaming Trees and Beat Happening; “The Road to Cornwall” by John Plotz; “A Night in the Life”; record reviews.

#7 (January 1988) London scene report by Corey Brennan; “Sunday Morning Gunk: Weekend Tour Diary”; “The Record Review Map”; year in review.

#8 (Spring 1988)  letters; record reviews (including a page on the Subway Organization); lyrics by Jean Smith; “Italian Disco Death!” by Corey Brennan; Yes at the Meadowlands by Marisa Januzzi; review of the Exploited atthe Channel by Sasha Gottschalk; “It’s a Cuisine” by Chris Marx; “In a Goof Mood, for the Time Being”; record reviews

#9 (May 1988) interview with the Nils (pop-punk band from Montreal); Rome and London scene report by Corey Brennan; art from Agaton Sax and the Max Brothers.

#10 (August 1988) “Make Up Your Own Rules:l article on Viewmaster; interview with Brix Smith by Corey Powell; article on Anarchy (the British magazine that was published from 1961 until 1988); live reviews of Desmond Dekker and various punk bands in London by Sasha Gottschalk; “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night” (record and snack reviews); interview with Mecca Normal

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Besides limericks, I’ve written sonnets, epodes, villanelles, song parodies, and one soliloquy. And each holiday season I cram Spelling Bee words into Christmas carols and holiday poetry. These are the top 25, based on Facebook likes, loves, and laughs. Click here to see them all, from the most recently-posted, or find your favorites below!

1. Soliloquy

2. Carol #14: The Nearly Twelve Pangrams of Christmas

3. Song #4: This Old Sam

4. Carol #25: I Saw Three Pangrams

5. Villanelle #1: My Tentative Valentine

6. Sonnet #9: My Cat, and my Case, Rest

7. Carol #21: Joy to The Bee

8. Carol #8: Have a Tall Loblolly Christmas

9. Carol #33: Spelling Bee

10. Carol #28: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

11. Carol #9: They Came Upon a Midnight Clear

12. Sonnet #20: Pirate School Dropout

13. Carol #22: Sam Ezersky’s Coming to Town

14. Sonnet #16: The Iceman Goeth

15. Carol #26: Banjo and Baboon (to the tune of “Sleigh Ride”)

16. Villanelle #4: Vanilla Nell

17. ‘Twas the Night before Hanukkah

18. Carol #37: Orangutan (to the tune of “O Christmas Tree”)

19. Villanelle #3: Comfort Food

20. Epode #3: The Dancing Octopus

21. Sonnet #5: The Winged Walrus

22. Sonnet #14: The Chemical Debutante Ball

23. Song #3: Giddy Long Little Doggie

24. Epode #1: Pound, Pounded

25. Sonnet #4: Roberta’s Revenge

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